The Santa Fe to Taos Trail goes from the Santa Fe Plaza to Taos Plaza over the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of northern New Mexico. It is 132 miles long, spans five counties – Santa Fe, San Miguel, Mora, Rio Arriba, and Taos – and crosses the Santa Fe National Forest, The Pecos Wilderness, and Carson National Forest. The full route has 35,000 feet of cumulative ascent and descent, as both plazas are at 7,000 feet elevation.
The route is over ten years in the making, scouted and refined by Pam Neely beginning around 2014, and then first completed as a thru-hike in 2018. It has been refined several times to optimize safety and access to water. It is still being refined, with a new alternate route to be announced later this year.
Support the Pecos! Come to the Upper Pecos Watershed Association’s Earth Day Road and River Cleanup on Saturday, April 18th.
9:30 am to 11:30 am. Meet at the UPWA Office, 78 S. Main St., Pecos.
Stick around for a 🎉 Community picnic + music 12:00–1:30 PM at Dalton Day Use Area | 🍽️ Free food provided! | 🎣 Special highlight: The Truchas Chapter of Trout Unlimited will be hosting a fly casting demonstration – fun for all ages! Help us celebrate UPWA’s 20th anniversary! Help spread the word: Share this as an Instagram post. Share this as a Facebook post.
Santa Fe National Forest in Stage 1 Fire Restrictions from April 2nd until September 30th
Details in the latest Trail Conditions blog post.
Santa Fe to Taos Trail 2025 Finishers
Congratulations to everyone who finished the trail in 2025! If you finished the SF2T, but:
- Haven’t sent me your trip report and/or
- Would like to be included on this page.
Send me an email (contact@santafetotaos.org) or use the contact page. There’s a free gift in it for you…
Maps and route
See the route page and individual section pages for details on the route and turn-by-turn directions for the route.
Presentation at the Los Alamos Mountaineers monthly meeting at the Los Alamos Nature Center Planetarium, Tuesday, October 28th
Huge thanks to the Mountaineers and the Nature Center for this opportunity.
Plaza to Plaza in 52 photographs
Each photograph is from one of the 50 subsections that make up the route.
